Des Plaines Man Indicted In Amvets Slaying

March 23, 1996

Cook County — A Des Plaines man was indicted on a charge of first-degree murder Friday in the shooting of an Amvets co-worker.

James Saunders of 2057 S. Pine St. was indicted in the Feb. 24 killing of David Peterson, 55, of Chicago, as Peterson worked in an Amvets trailer in a Kmart parking lot on Oakton Street in Des Plaines, according to the Cook County state's attorney's office. Saunders, 43, appeared Friday before Judge Marcia Orr in the Skokie branch of Cook County Circuit Court. He is being held on $3 million bond.